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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
The next big thing is going to cost millions and millions to start up so that excludes 95% on this board. I myself have a great idea for a travel social site, but have way too many irons in the fire as it is. - next year.
WTS, I'm proud to be old school because text messaging craze just escapes me. If you got something to say email me and I'll eventually reply and if it's urgent, call me.
Don't even get me started about FB.
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excludes 99% of the people here.
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Originally Posted by d-null
isn't it kind of fucked when you think of it, not too long ago you had to write a letter on a piece of paper by hand and get a stamp and put it in the mail, then email killed much of that, but now email is too slow and too much trouble for the next generation
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it didnt seem like that many years ago (about 20 to be exact) that if you needed to get in touch with me you paged me and I used a pay phone to call you back.
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Originally Posted by d-null
I agree, I don't think it will take too many years before Facebook loses big time, unless they come up with something drastically different, I can see many people that are on it now with all kinds of ex-es and school friends etc. get tired of being at all accessible to the people they are hanging out with now or ever dated and want nothing to do with it all, it just seems crazy to put so much of your life online like that and be connected to so many aquaintances forever
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i dont think so, sure maybe some people but not most. People get too carried away being nosy and peaking in on other people's lives and seeing what they been up too. Looking at their pictures, what they did last weekend.
It's like crack for a lot of people who don't have their own lives. You have 3 types of people on FB, 1. the ones who love to post about anything, the *look at me* people who love the attention and post about anything " hey look at the turd I just shit out everyone!" 2. the people who are casual users, make occasional updates, occasionaly read other people's shit, and then you have 3. The people with no lives who spend all day reading what everyone else has been doing and looking at their pictures. The middle group may come and go but the core users on FB are #1 and #3.
FB is like hooking a crack addict up with a crack dealer. The *look at me* people who post about anything and everything are the crack dealers and the people with no lives who read the shit all day are the crack addicts. You never going to lose those 2 groups of people, they hooked.
FB will be around and very popular for a long time, at least in internet time, which is 10+ years before another similar but slightly different site competes with them.